Welcome Tre Harris, WR, Ole Miss (R2, Pick 55) - Holdout Over

**NoMoreChillies** · 04-25-2025, 04:49 PM

"can win on the outside"

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

**wu-dai clan** · 04-25-2025, 04:50 PM

Excellent play strength. Contested catch player. Dog mentality. Ball tracker. Adjusts to throws well. Sounds like a Herbert friendly receiver with such traits.

**Xenos** · 04-25-2025, 04:53 PM

Good pick with health his biggest concern. Ranked 65th overall on Brugler’s top 100 board. 8th best WR in his board. Here’s the breakdown:

A two-year starter at Ole Miss, Harris was an outside receiver (left and right) in offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr.’s spread scheme (aligned out wide for 85.4 percent of his snaps). A Louisiana Tech transfer, he was in the midst of a potentially record-breaking 2024 season with an FBS-best 987 receiving yards by the second week in October (181 yards more than the next-closest player on the list), but he played in just 16 more snaps the rest of the season because of injury.

You know what you’re getting on his tape: an outside wide receiver who runs a ton of slants and curls, with a post or crosser mixed in (Ole Miss receivers used post-snap reads). But you still have to stop him, and that was a problem for defenses this season. Though he’s not a burner, Harris has the stride speed to be a factor on linear/one-cut routes and displays smooth gear down for clean transitions. The best parts of his game are his hand-eye coordination and finishing toughness to make catches over defensive backs. Overall, Harris doesn’t have the explosive speed or separation skills that teams covet in a No. 1 receiver, but he is a controlled athlete with the play strength and ball skills to be a dependable possession target. He projects as an NFL starter and a team’s No. 2 target — if he can stay healthy.

**Chargers8491** · 04-25-2025, 04:56 PM

Lets hope their 1st and 2nd rnd picks are as well as last years.

**21&500** · 04-25-2025, 04:57 PM

The BEAST:

All wide receivers
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TOP 100 RANK
65
LAC
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23 Tre Harris

Ole Miss

HT

6′2″

WT

205

YR

5SR

AGE

23.15
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Overview
Strengths
Weaknesses
Background
Stats Overview

hometown
Lafayette, LA
high school
Comeaux
birthday
Feb. 28, 2002
jersey
#9

A two-year starter at Ole Miss, Harris was an outside receiver (left and right) in offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr.’s spread scheme (aligned out wide for 85.4 percent of his snaps). A Louisiana Tech transfer, he was in the midst of a potentially record-breaking 2024 season with an FBS-best 987 receiving yards by the second week in October (181 yards more than the next-closest player on the list), but he played in just 16 more snaps the rest of the season because of injury.

You know what you’re getting on his tape: an outside wide receiver who runs a ton of slants and curls, with a post or crosser mixed in (Ole Miss receivers used post-snap reads). But you still have to stop him, and that was a problem for defenses this season. Though he’s not a burner, Harris has the stride speed to be a factor on linear/one-cut routes and displays smooth gear down for clean transitions. The best parts of his game are his hand-eye coordination and finishing toughness to make catches over defensive backs. Overall, Harris doesn’t have the explosive speed or separation skills that teams covet in a No. 1 receiver, but he is a controlled athlete with the play strength and ball skills to be a dependable possession target. He projects as an NFL starter and a team’s No. 2 target — if he can stay healthy.

grade2nd–3rd Round Testing

combine

6023

205

9^5/8″

31^7/8″

78^1/4″

4.54

2.65

1.57

38^1/2″

10′5″

DNP

No position drills, SS, three-cone, bench — choice

pro day

6023

207

9^1/8″

32^5/8″

78^1/2″

DNP

Glossary

Back to top Strengths

Tall, well-built athlete with adequate body thickness
Natural ball skills and doesn’t fight the football
Plays strong and flashes the ability to use his frame like a low-post basketball player (Harris calls the slant his “money ball” play)
Maintains focus through and around contact at the catch point (wins over defenders and on back shoulders)
Graceful strides mid-route to easily transfer momentum or get on top/over cornerbacks
Smooth in and out of drive phase when technique is sound
Controlled stem footwork with purposeful steps at tops of routes
Balanced as ball carrier and will muscle through contact or fend off tacklers with a firm stiff arm
Started introducing more yoga to his training to help avoid injuries
The coaching staff speaks highly of the way he carries himself (Lane Kiffin: "He truly prepares like a 10-year NFL vet. … This guy is all about being a great player and doing whatever it takes. It's very refreshing.”)
Posted ten 100-yard receiving games (in 20 games played at Ole Miss), fourth-most in school history

Back to top Weaknesses

Speed is more build-up than immediate
Doesn’t have suddenness in feet to easily shake open-field defenders
Drops usually were a result of cradle-attempt catches
Gives press corners a large target and will need to learn better hand precision to release
Didn’t play in an offense that required a diverse route-running portfolio
Fumbled twice on 2024 tape
Flashes play strength to put the clamps on corners as a blocker, but the competitive desire isn’t consistently there
Missed a significant chunk of time in his final season because of groin injury (Oct. 2024), which sidelined him for five games (and parts of others); Missed one game because of left knee injury (Sept. 2023), which required a minor procedure

Back to top Background

Cleveland “Tre” Harris III, the only boy and second-youngest of four children, grew up in Lafayette, La. (55 miles west of Baton Rouge), with his parents (Cleveland Jr. and Delana). Cleveland Jr. has worked for almost 30 years in oil fields, which is where Tre developed his blue-collar work ethic. Tre Harris learned how to play basketball and other sports by playing outside with his three sisters. Harris started playing football at age 6.

Harris attended Ovey Comeaux High in Lafayette, where he was teammates with Malik Nabers (Harris was “like a brother” and “mentor” for Nabers). Harris was expected to be the top wide receiver on varsity as a sophomore, but when the starting quarterback transferred, the coaches looked to Harris to fill that void and run the team’s flexbone option offense. He was also a standout basketball player at Comeaux and started from his freshman year on. Going into his junior year, Harris elected to leave the football team to focus on basketball. But after Comeaux lost two of the first three football games, Harris returned and quarterbacked the team to the 2018 state playoffs. Harris said he realized how much he loved football because of how much he missed it (Nabers also pestered him “every day” to come back). As a senior, Harris earned first-team all-district honors and again led Comeaux to the 5A state playoffs, where it secured the school’s first playoff win since 2009. He and Nabers (a junior at the time) called themselves “the best duo in the state” and connected 58 times for 1,233 yards and 21 touchdowns. When Harris graduated after the 2019 season, Nabers transferred to Southside High for his senior season. A four-year starter and two-year captain on the basketball team, Harris earned first-team all-district honors as a junior and second-team all-state as a senior, averaging 23.0 points per game in 2019-20.

A three-star recruit, Harris was the 176th-ranked athlete in the 2020 recruiting class and the No. 96 recruit in Louisiana. After he decided to focus more on football as a junior, he attended several camps following the season. His coaches believed he could be a dual-threat quarterback in college, but Harris was open to making a position change — most programs recruited him at wide receiver. He received his first scholarship offer in May 2019 (FCS McNeese State), followed by offers from Nicholls State and Northwestern State. A few weeks later, Harris picked up his first FBS offer (Louisiana Tech), followed by offers from Louisiana-Monroe and his hometown school, Louisiana. Before his all-district senior season at quarterback, he officially committed to Louisiana Tech as a wide receiver.

After three years with that program, Harris entered the transfer portal following the 2022 season. He picked up several high-profile offers, including from Oklahoma, Penn State and Texas A&M. However, he was drawn to Lane Kiffin’s offense and joined Ole Miss in January 2023. Harris took advantage of the extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA because of the pandemic and returned to Oxford for his fifth season in 2024. He graduated with a degree in general business (May 2024). Harris accepted his invitation to the East-West Shrine Bowl (wasn’t medically cleared until January 28).

Back to top Stats

Receiving

2020	Louisiana Tech	7	0	1	20	20.00	0	0
2021	Louisiana Tech	12	9	40	562	14.05	4	1
2022	Louisiana Tech	12	12	65	935	14.38	10	6
2023	Ole Miss	12	11	54	985	18.24	8	3
2024	Ole Miss	8	8	60	1,030	17.17	7	5
Total		51	40	220	3,532	16.05	29	15

Notes & Awards

2020	Louisiana Tech	Pandemic-shortened season
2021	Louisiana Tech	Honorable Mention All-CUSA
2022	Louisiana Tech	First Team All-CUSA; Led team in receiving
2023	Ole Miss	Led team in receiving; Single-game receiving record with 4 TDs; Missed one game (left knee)
2024	Ole Miss	Third Team All-SEC; Led team in receiving; Missed five games (groin)

**captaind** · 04-25-2025, 04:57 PM

"If he can stay healthy"

He & Glass Joe can rotate injury weeks

**21&500** · 04-25-2025, 04:57 PM

Coach Lal approves!
welcome home Tre!
Hope you can catch fast balls.

**cmplxgal** · 04-25-2025, 05:03 PM

Commentators on ABC really like him. They say he plays a lot faster than he tests and that he's great at contested catches. He sounds like just what the Chargers need.

**Fleet 1** · 04-25-2025, 05:08 PM

I legit stopped talking about Harris because i thought i said too much about him last year. I thought he was ready to declare. I really have been a big fan of his game for a while now. I just love his routes. I think he is very Keenan like. Its a great fit for Justin. We have the contested guy in MW. 2 savvy route runners. If we didnt get Arroyo i wanted Harris.

I always get so happy when we draft a guy i love.

**FoutsFan** · 04-25-2025, 05:13 PM

Originally posted by Xenos View Post

Good pick with health his biggest concern. Ranked 65th overall on Brugler’s top 100 board. 8th best WR in his board. Here’s the breakdown:

Another player Bungler does not like it seems. Good thing Bungler is not on our scouting department.

**Formula 21** · 04-25-2025, 05:18 PM

Herbie’s got weapons this year.